National Data Systems and Domestic Resource Mobilisation

This annotated bibliography draws on a rapid review of literature that explores the link between national data and statistical systems and DRM. The evidence appears to be very limited and fragmented. The search revealed two studies that directly focus on the relationships between informational capacity and fiscal capacity, and between the national statistical office and the revenue authority, as well as studies that consider the value of third?party data for the tax system. Another body of evidence explores the link between a particular data source or system and the capacity to generate revenue. This link may be the paper’s principal focus or only an element within it. In the latter case, only those parts of a paper that are directly relevant to the research question are reviewed.